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Blue-tailed emerald
The blue-tailed emerald is 7.5 cm (3 in) long and weighs 2.6 g. The black bill is relatively short and straight. The male has a brilliant green plumage, with white thighs and a dark metallic blue tail (clearly forked in the northern part of its range; slightly so in the central and southern part). The female average smaller than the male and also differ by the grey-white underparts, a blackish ear patch, a short white supercilium/post-ocular streak and white-tipped outer tail feathers.
Habitat:
Garden in Bonaire, Very shy and wary of humans, difficult to photograph.
The blue-tailed emerald is a hummingbird found in tropical and subtropical South America east of the Andes from Colombia east to the Guianas and Trinidad, and south to northern Bolivia and central Brazil.
The taxonomy is highly complex and it often includes ''C. canivetii'', ''C. auriceps'', ''C. forficatus'', ''C. assimilis'', ''C. gibsoni'' and ''C. melanorhynchus'' from north-western South America and Central America as subspecies.
It is a bird of savanna, scrub, cultivation.. more
